Il Mondo festeggiante : balletto a cavallo, fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran dvca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo Terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Lvisa d'Orleans

by: Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea, 1624-1700; Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664

Publication date: 1661

Topics: Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723, Margherita Luisa, Princess of Orleans, consort of Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1647-1721, Carducci, Alessandro, Tacca, Ferdinando, 1619-1686, Anglesi, Domenico, Visconti, Alessandro, fl. 1661, Mondo festeggiante [1661] (Choreographic work), Festivals, Weddings, Theaters, Horse ballet, Horse processions

Publisher: In Firenze : Nella Stamperia di S.A.S.

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Last leaf blank

Signatures: [A] B-H I²

Pages A1-2 wanting; I2, blank; I3-4 wanting

Errata on p. 66

Woodcut head-piece and initial

A prose description of the horse ballet "Ercole in Tebe", interspersed with Giovanni Andrea Moniglia's verses for the songs; without the music. Plates are etched by Stefano della Bella

The performance took place in the amphitheater of the Boboli Gardens on July 1, 1661. Alessandro Carducci is credited with having conceived the event, directed by Alessandro Visconti, Ferdinando Tacca designed the scenography and Domenico Anglesi composed the music

Illustrations: three folded plates (dimensions: 29 x 44 cm.), two depict the actual festivities taking place on stage of the amphitheater of the Boboli Gardens, the third shows various choreographies of the horse ballet

The plates in library's copy have the left margin cut sharply

Binding: contemporary soft parchement, gilt boards and spine

Blumenthal, A. Medici

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos

Sartori, C. Libretti italiani

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